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Acknowledgements
Here I would like to acknowledge my gratitude to people who helped me to put across my
doctoral thesis.
First of all I would like to thank my supervisor Susanne Rotter for her advices and for the
many discussions we had. I am indebt to you for the trust you gave me, for all the freedom,
the material and immaterial support that you provided.
I wish to thank Thomas Pretz for accepting to be the second supervisor of the thesis.
I am very happy that Christian Hagelüken accepted to become officially a supervisor. He
helped me for this research from the very beginning, providing ideas and opening doors
through his many contacts and his extensive knowledge. I hope you will continue building
bridges between academia and industry.
I am very grateful to all the colleagues at the chair of solid waste management of Berlin
University of Technology, especially to Florian Groß, the “mother of us all”. Thanks also to
Margit Löschau, Mechthild Baron, Til Bolland, Annekathrin Lehmann and Silvia Zunk for
being nice and helpful. The diploma or project theses of Til Bolland (again), Wolf-Peter Schill,
Robert Rauch, Youwei Kou, Ming Zhang, Dajiang Zhao und Michael Srocka brought very
valuable information, thank you.
I had the chance to visit another research institute with a very friendly atmosphere, the
Center for Industrial Ecology of Yale University. Thanks to Barbara Reck for exchanging
ideas and letting her son play with me, to Reid Lifset for the coffee and the very interesting
discussions and to T.E. Graedel for making my research stay in Yale possible. I also want to
acknowledge the many experts I met in these years, especially Alexander Janz, Eva
Leonhardt, Christina Meskers, Jaco Huisman, John Bullock, Markus Reuter, Otmar Deubzer,
Jörg Woidasky, Horst Broehl-Kerner and Atsushi Terazono. Thanks to Oliver Cencic and his
colleagues for the STAN-Freeware. Also thanks to the operators of the recycling facilities I
visited and to the numerous persons I met during workshops and conferences.
I would also like to thank the Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt for the 3-years doctoral
scholarship, for supporting and trusting me. Thank also to the Deutsche
Forschungsgemeinschaft for financing my stay at Yale.
Last but not least, I am pleased to acknowledge my friends and family for having listened so
long to my “trash discussions”, for instance Ronny, Annie, Wolfgang, Mareile, Patrick & Isa,
their children, and the Jelly Bears-“joggers”. I am lucky to have you.
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